Duchamp didn't hear Morgana's evaluation, he had already entered the excitement mode, and his mouth cannon talent was launched with all his might, and now he couldn't even stop if he wanted to.

"In terms of speed, China's existing airships are the slowest in the world, with a speed of only four or five hundred cels per hour. The speed of the train is even slower.

But if you don't compare it with the world, does anyone dislike that the train is not fast enough?

No, we don't have the habit of going for the fastest and the most advanced. The aesthetic of Erebonia is large, the volume of the carriage should be large enough, and the decoration should be luxurious enough to look resplendent and splendid. As for its intrinsic and speed, who cares.

I've always wondered about this, and I've studied why this kind of luxury is so popular in the Empire.

I was told that this was the legacy of the thousand-year-old aristocracy. In a closed society for thousands of years, the happiest person one could see was the lord, and everyone wanted to be a lord, so that he could live in a castle and call all the people around him to live a happy life without work. And becoming a lord does not depend on personal innovation and ability, but on bloodline inheritance.

So the lord himself attributed his success to having a good father, and the people who were not lords attributed his failure to not having a good father!

So what is the thousand-year-old cultural tradition of Erebonia? In my opinion, it is the culture of spelling dad!

For example, the row of classmates standing next to me now, as long as they wear white school uniforms, they can receive a large number of envy, jealousy and hatred from boys, and girls eager to make promises.

Because of this school uniform, it means that he has a good father! As for whether others are smart, good at learning, or good character, who cares! ”

"Coax!" The room erupted in loud laughter.

Standing in front of Duchamp happened to be ten brothers who had squeezed in together, and several of them were wearing the white uniforms of aristocratic students, and they were unfortunately shot at once.

Dieter shrank back in red ears, Liermuel reached out and pinched Duchamp hard, but Isaac playfully raised his right hand and threw a long flying kiss at the audience.

"Wow!" The laughter grew louder.

Seeing that selling cuteness was effective, Isaac simply held up the hem of the white uniform with both hands and performed a princess salute.

Many civilian students laughed so much that tears flowed from their eyes, and they were unsteady on their feet. This was the first time in their lives that they had heard the nobles ridicule themselves like this, and the solemn atmosphere just now was swept away.

Mark looked perverted and excited, stubbornly leaned against a small table, and thought excitedly: "It's the right time today, fight daddy's culture, how sharp this is!" Tomorrow the term will be popular on campus. ”

Duchamp waited for everyone's laughter to be a little lower, and then said:

But now this culture has encountered a crisis, that is, in my father's time, there was no airship, and there was no leading revolution! So the Erebonians came to our generation and suddenly found that Daddy was unreliable! What to do? ”

The slow-minded students continued to laugh, but most of the students knew that they would face a hearty complaint below, and they all showed expressions of watching the show.

"Dad can't be trusted, that's what we call the crisis of aristocratic lordship.

At present, there is a faint trend of thought, that is, the aristocracy is eliminated, and this crisis is solved!

Whether this argument is correct or not, I don't think it's necessarily right, if the national culture does not change, at most it is just a slight change in the color of the school uniform. It's nothing more than a white school uniform that is popular today, a blue school uniform tomorrow, and that's it.

Where is the real crux of the problem, not in my father, but in myself, and whether our generation can be relied on?

Do we have the heart to pursue faster, higher, and stronger bravery?

On the road of science, only those who are never satisfied will build faster airships, invent new technologies, and create all kinds of new things that no one has before.

This is a cultural issue of the country. I don't think we have such a culture at the moment, or that everyone from the aristocracy to the plebeians is still entangled in the superiority of history, and they never realize that with the advent of the Guiding Revolution, we need a new national spirit to rule the times.

In recent years, there has been a partial change in the privileged class of our country, and some of the commoner-born bigwigs have begun to occupy important positions in the country, but I still do not see that the culture of this country has changed with the rise to power of the commoner elite.

On the contrary, I personally think that the culture of this country has deteriorated further! Contrary to the spirit that this era needs. ”

There was a nervous whisper from the audience: "Is he talking about the Prime Minister?" ”

"That's arrogant! Think you are who you are! ”

Duchamp was unmoved, he had long known what effect his words would have, but he didn't care at all.

As a player, don't you even have the right to complain!

He continued to insist on making his point to the end:

"Whether it's the old magnates, the new magnates, the magnates in the guise of civilians, they still don't realize what the crux of the country is. Whenever internal troubles are prominent, wars are frequently launched to divert contradictions.

Today, we use most of our national funds to maintain the largest military in the world, targeting the small countries that are our neighbors.

What to do without an advanced airship engine? Go grab it!

What should I do if I don't have enough Yaojing ore reserves? Go grab it!

In a country where all the people are martial, it is very dangerous to say such things, and everyone will point at your nose and scold, 'Aren't you proud to be the most militarily powerful country in the world?' ’

Seriously, I'm not proud of that. The country has gone astray.

In modern society, what are the criteria for determining whether a country is a strong country? It is not the breadth of the territory and the number of its citizens, but the technological leadership and creativity of its people.

If there is no creativity, if the people do not have the confidence to believe that they can create everything with their own hands, even if we occupy the whole world, and there is only one country on the whole continent, Erebonia, we are still not a strong country! ”

There was some confusion, there was a buzz of discussion everywhere, and those who supported Duchamp's views and those who opposed them had begun a private debate. Duchamp looked at it and knew that he had talked too much, so he said in his usual mocking tone: "Those who know me well know that class is generally over here, and students who want to leave can leave now." ”

Before the person who wanted to leave moved one foot, a high-pitched voice sounded: "But! ”

"Cut!" The people in the same class as Duchamp couldn't help but raise their middle fingers, and they couldn't help howling in their hearts: "This guy will use this trick every time!" ”

Sure enough, there were a lot of people at the scene, and not everyone could listen to this arrogant words.

In a corner of the white house, several girls discussed whether to leave.

Morgana looked at her watch and said to the other girls with certainty, "Today's lesson is expected to last an hour and a half, and now it's only a quarter of an hour, and what he's really going to talk about hasn't started yet!" ”

El Lia asked puzzledly, "Why do you have to come and listen to this kid's nonsense?" ”

Morgana blinked twice, pursed her lips and said, "This kid can occasionally bring out a little serious remark in his nonsense, so let's listen to it for a while." Aisha, you don't need to remember these nonsense words. ”

Aisha let out an 'um' sound, still honestly taking notes.

Morgana pulled out a fan and played with it, patiently waiting for Duchamp's lecture to begin.

She did not mention it to the girls about seeing Duchamp in her father's study as a member of the Erebonian Royal Airship Society.

The airship project, which fell from the sky, caused a huge reaction among the Erebonian political circles and the aristocracy, far beyond the imagination of the people.

The abruptness of this plan was that such a large plan would have to be discussed for two years, but His Majesty the Emperor took an extraordinary interest in it, and overstepped the direct authorization of the Cabinet.

Nothing like this has happened since Prime Minister Osborne came to power. Some sensitive nobles are already gloating about speculating that there must have been a contradiction between His Majesty the Emperor and the Prime Minister, and some even optimistically speculate that the Emperor feels that the Prime Minister has been given too many rights and wants to gradually take them back.

Even if it doesn't come to this point, there are still people who are optimistic that the emperor is showing favor to the majority of nobles in this way? The fact that the royal government is in charge of aviation affairs is much better than looking at the face of a civilian outbreak. Many powerful nobles saw this as a result, and they had to make a route to show their resolute support for the emperor's wise decision.

The Wen family hesitated for a long time about how to deal with this, and finally gave up on joining in the first round, and Morgana's father said to his children in the study: "That one has no heir qualifications, he is not worth our bets." ”

Although the royal family did not disclose the matter of His Royal Highness Olivet's renunciation of his heir qualifications, the Wen family's intelligence network had long been aware of it. Count Wen thought the opposite of the other nobles, and he thought that perhaps His Majesty the Emperor wanted to compensate His Royal Highness Olivet for this decision. In other political matters, it is not evident that His Majesty the Emperor's trust in the Prime Minister has wavered.

But this does not mean that the Wen family no longer pays attention to civilian airships, and the Duke of Kane's family, which is close to their family, has already caused oppression on the Haiwen Peninsula in the civil airship industry. But Count Wen only calmly responded and instructed his children to pay close attention to the matter.

Morgana was in such a situation, in the documents in her father's study, she accidentally saw the name of Dietri Kane, who was the representative of the Kane family in the Royal Airship Society, even Steiri Duchamp's name appeared in the list of directors of the Royal Airship Society, which surprised Morgana, and used female instinct to guess that there must be some kind of cause and effect.

She even used her rich imagination to outline a possibility: the Kane family, stimulated by the railway plan to the security of the territory, looked for a way to break the situation from the side, and secretly united with the Lane Ford Society and other powerful nobles to secretly launch this plan, only in this way can the plan be carried out so quickly.

And Dietrie may have been secretly handling this matter when he was in school with Rulei, and Duchamp's role in this matter was Dietrie's senior staff, so he could occupy a place in the list of directors of the Airship Association.

Such an unwarranted inference, if it were to be said, would inevitably make people laugh, and now all the people of Erebonia attributed the airship project to the wisdom and decisiveness of His Majesty Yukent. Morgana could only make a mental note of the incident and observe the two men in secret.